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[quote=Anonymous]Just curious—where have you considered and what have folks you’ve spoken to said? I feel like this board is always talking about how magical and advanced mcps and aps and fcps are, but then I look at those boards and people seem to be making the same complaints. It’s hard to get a reliable picture of who is really happy with their middle and high school experience so I can weigh that.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're not wrong but I'm a little surprised by how many neighborhood families seem OK with Eliot-Hine, Jefferson Academy and Stuart Hobson these days though.  I'm not hearing too many complaints from friends and neighbors who are using these schools, most of them UMC and white.[/quote]

There are stats on this that were posted recently. It’s actually not that many families choosing their IB middle school, no matter what boosters like you post (repeatedly). [/quote]
Give me a break.  I'm no booster.  My children attend a parochial middle school in VA. I've been fed up with our DCPS ES post Covid, thrilled that we only have one week of 5th grade left.  But I'm genuinely surprised by how many of the brainy families we've known on the Hill for many years are actually sending their children to Eliot Hine, Jefferson or Stuart Hobson for 6th or 7th grade.  You don't have to be a booster to notice the uptick in Hill enrollment or to comment on it here.
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Your alleged surprise doesn’t trump the actual numbers, which actually tell the opposite story. [/quote]

I know quite a few parents who are sending their kids to Stuart Hobson and Eliot. None of them have kids who are really academic achievers so they feel comfortable in a low key environment where academics isn’t such a priority. [/quote]

Ha, you might group my kid in there, but I’d gladly share his IQ tests to disabuse you of that notion … [b]The kids I know going to EH come from very accomplished families who are comfortable with EH likely because of that.[/b] [/quote]

Why?[/quote]

My kids don't go to SH or EH, but I can answer that question. It's because I assumed my kid wouldn't need much to keep thriving, based on elementary experience. And in some ways, that has been true, but in other ways, the boredom has been pretty severe. No one in our family wants to leave the district, and the grass isn't really much greener (from stories I hear), so we do our best to supplement (harder in middle school, when kids have their own ideas, but still doable). [/quote][/quote]

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